Social Standing Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.
— Melissa Harris-Perry
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The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing…
— Mary McCarthy
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The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the…
— Wilma Mankiller
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The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle…
— Merle Haggard
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I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their…
— Alice Neel
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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp…
— Paul Farmer
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'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.
— Michelle Obama
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest…
— Susan B. Anthony
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All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing…
— Bell Hooks
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Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Every member of Congress is sent to Washington to represent all of their constituents, regardless of their age, race, social standing, or sexual orientation, and…
— Mark Takano
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It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of…
— Louis D. Brandeis
Who Wrote These Social Standing Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Social Standing Quotes as follows: